Lawo Classics reviews
Myaskovsky • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, etc
Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo Classics)
R Schumann: Der Nussbaum; Liederkreis; Widmung, etc
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Nils Anders Mortensen, Johannes Weisser (baritone) (Lawo)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, etc
Oslo Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo)
R Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (Lawo Classics)
Telemann the Chameleon
Bergen Barokk (Lawo)
Scriabin: Symphony No. 1; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Alisa Kolosova, Alexey Dolgov, Kirill Gerstein; Oslo Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (LAWO)
R Strauss: Don Quixote; Don Juan, etc
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko, et al (Lawo Classics)
Vasily Petrenko gives voice to Strauss’s tone poems
'Don Quixote emerges as one of the richest orchestral scores ever composed, the ultimate opera for orchestra'
Ginastera: Harp Concerto, etc
Sidsel Walstad (harp); Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Lawo Classics)
Tonnesen and Norwegian Chamber Orchestra perform Richard Strauss and Lully
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Vasily Petrenko is the 'ideal interpreter' of Scriabin's Symphony No. 2
In many respects, Vasily Petrenko is the ideal interpreter for this ripe overheated music with its strong echoes of Liszt, Wagner and Tchaikovsky. He knows instinctively how to sustain momentum, particularly in the Second Symphony’s more repetitive sequential passages. He also ensures that Scriabin’s propensity for unleashing constant surges in sound in the faster-paced movements does not become self-defeating, and that the biggest climaxes of all really have the greatest impact.